Are Democrats in for a #39;schallacking #39;?
New polls asking Americans who they would vote for in the fall - Democrats or Republicans - look similar to 2010 #39;s.
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Benghazi Select Committee To Have 7 Republicans 5 Democrats The Kelly File
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House and Senate Democrats Press Conference on the Affordable Care Act
Congressman Xavier Becerra (CA-34), Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus will be joined by Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT), Congresswoman Diana DeGette (CO-01), Congresswoman Doris Matsui (CA-06),...
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hide captionA Libyan man is shown inside the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, on Sept. 11, 2012.
A Libyan man is shown inside the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, on Sept. 11, 2012.
Updated on May, 7, 2014 at 10:46 am
Late Tuesday, House Republicans made public on Speaker John Boehner's website their draft resolution to create the Benghazi select committee. The resolution calls for a panel of seven Republicans and five Democrats and no written rules for the panel.
House Democrats responded with a letter from Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the minority leader, and Rep. Steny Hoyer, the minority whip, denouncing the Republican decision to ignore Democratic calls for the panel's membership to be evenly split.
As of this update, Democratic leaders have not yet said whether their members will participate in or boycott the select committee.
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While at least one of their number has said House Democrats should boycott the new select committee created by Speaker John Boehner to further investigate the 2012 Benghazi, Libya, attack that left four Americans dead, other Democrats aren't yet willing to go that far.
True, Democrats consider it a GOP election-year political stunt. They see it as as a Boehner attempt to mollify conservatives after he mocked them on immigration legislation, one which would excite the Republican base, keep the White House on its heels and muddy up Hillary Clinton in advance of 2016.
But while boycotting the select committee, as California Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff has suggested, might de-legitimize the panel, it would also give Republicans an open road to deliver whatever messages they wanted without any immediate Democratic interference. That approach presents obvious problems.
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HARRISBURG - House Democrats on Tuesday walked out of a legislative hearing on a measure to impeach Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane, with one calling it a kangaroo court.
Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, a conservative Republican from Butler County, called for the proceeding, saying Kane had exhibited "misbehavior" in office.
But Democrats said the State Government Committee hearing was little more than a political stunt by Metcalfe, the committee chairman, to embarrass the Democratic attorney general.
"Have your kangaroo court, pal," Rep. Michael H. O'Brien (D., Phila.) told Metcalfe on his way out the door.
Among the examples Metcalfe has given of alleged misbehavior: Kane's decision not to defend the state's gay marriage ban, and her decision to shut down a sting investigation that caught five Philadelphia Democrats, including four state lawmakers, on recordings accepting money or gifts.
Democrats said the proceeding was not only politically motivated but circumvented the normal process for impeachment hearings, which are rare in the Capitol.
Minutes after the hearing began, the committee's ranking Democrat, Rep. Mark Cohen (D., Phila.), asked that it be canceled.
"Impeaching for political reasons is never a good idea," Cohen said. "Using this committee and this legislature to settle political grievances is even worse."
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